As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at ex...As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at exploring the effect of subtitled movies on listening comprehension of EFL learners.展开更多
As a highly integrative and demanding receptive skill,listening comprehension presents a challenge to both learners and researchers.The study reported in this paper is listening comprehension objective-factor research...As a highly integrative and demanding receptive skill,listening comprehension presents a challenge to both learners and researchers.The study reported in this paper is listening comprehension objective-factor research.Manipulating topic factors,the study investigated the effect of topic familiarity and linguistic difficulty on EFL(English as a foreign language)listening comprehension of learners at different proficiency levels.展开更多
Listening has been considered as the most important language skill by many researchers but in Chinese context it has been overlooked for years.The Foreign Language(FL)listening problems gradually reveal when students ...Listening has been considered as the most important language skill by many researchers but in Chinese context it has been overlooked for years.The Foreign Language(FL)listening problems gradually reveal when students attend to the Listening Course in universities or colleges.This paper at first illustrates the importance of listening in foreign language learning and provides a discussion on the top-down and bottom-up processes with the analysis of Anderson's three-model of language comprehension[9]as well as the factors affecting listening comprehension in Foreign Language in general,aiming at the illustration of the necessity on one of the bottom-up processes-the Spoken Word Recognition(SWR).The analysis of two issued official guiding documents for Chinese university students and the current situation of English listening teaching in Chinese universities are followed,providing a general background on English listening teaching in Chinese context.Three possible foreign language listening problems and their causes are proposed,followed by the pedagogical suggestions to EFL learners who are improving their listening skills and instructors who are advancing their teaching procedures.展开更多
Listening plays a significant role in everyday communication, as a language teacher in Chinese higher vocational college,I would like to do some research about some listening strategies on how to improve EFL learners ...Listening plays a significant role in everyday communication, as a language teacher in Chinese higher vocational college,I would like to do some research about some listening strategies on how to improve EFL learners listening ability.展开更多
Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Ba...Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Based on schema theory, ways like developing vocabulary, reading relevant materials in learners' first language, introducing different types of text are useful to develop background knowledge, thus will facilitate reading and listening comprehension.展开更多
In recent decades, there is an increasing awareness among EFL teachers that listening is no longer being regarded as a receptive skill to assist other language skills. Instead, listening itself is viewed as an importa...In recent decades, there is an increasing awareness among EFL teachers that listening is no longer being regarded as a receptive skill to assist other language skills. Instead, listening itself is viewed as an important communicative skill that is urgently required in the real- world communication. This project aims to identify the main features of authentic listening that are required in EFL teaching which are Purpose and Expectation, Environmental Background Clues and Informal Speech.展开更多
The author of this paper discusses how to improve listening skills by applying strategy-based approach to teaching EFL listening comprehension to the Chinese students of English in the light of : 1. Introducing the si...The author of this paper discusses how to improve listening skills by applying strategy-based approach to teaching EFL listening comprehension to the Chinese students of English in the light of : 1. Introducing the situation of teaching listening comprehension in China; 2. Analyzing the existing problems in this aspect; 3. Reviewing the theoretical literature on listening strategies and their role in teaching EFL listening comprehension; 4. Proposing how to apply the strategy-based approach in teaching listening comprehension. 5. Providing a strategy-based listening lesson plan .展开更多
Due to the covert nature of the listening process, English listening comprehension has become a demanding challenge for most EFL learners in China. Strategy-based listening instruction, with its more accurate insight ...Due to the covert nature of the listening process, English listening comprehension has become a demanding challenge for most EFL learners in China. Strategy-based listening instruction, with its more accurate insight into the listening process, could be one of the timely answers to the challenges facing Chinese EFL listeners. Starting with a comprehensive review of theories and studies on strategy-based listening instruction in recent Western academia, the current paper critically examined the possible advantages and the theoretical and practical limitations of strategy-based listening instruction.展开更多
Metacognition is defined as the knowledge and ability to monitor and control cognitive conditions in the learning process.Listening is the most important skill of the four language skills in both learning and teaching...Metacognition is defined as the knowledge and ability to monitor and control cognitive conditions in the learning process.Listening is the most important skill of the four language skills in both learning and teaching,and plays an important role in our daily life.Although nowadays there is a deeper perception of listening,it needs more attention and research.Accordingly,the present study investigates the relationship between the Metacognitive awareness and listening performance of female Dentistry students in English for General Purposes(EGP)course in Urmia University of Medical Sciences(UMSU).To do so,50 Iranian female dentistry students were participated in this study.They completed Metacognitive Awareness Listing Questionnaire(MALQ)and listening section of the final exam.First,the listening section of final exam was applied to the participants at classrooms by the teacher.Immediately after the administration of the examination,the MALQ were conducted.The analysis exposed a weak positive relationship between learners’Metacognitive awareness scores and listening performance.Although correlation was not high,still there is more correlation in problem solving,directed attention and planning evaluation than others.展开更多
文摘As one of the most important communication skills,listening plays a crucial role in English teaching.Therefore,it’s significant to find an effective teaching mode to improve students’listening.This paper aimed at exploring the effect of subtitled movies on listening comprehension of EFL learners.
文摘As a highly integrative and demanding receptive skill,listening comprehension presents a challenge to both learners and researchers.The study reported in this paper is listening comprehension objective-factor research.Manipulating topic factors,the study investigated the effect of topic familiarity and linguistic difficulty on EFL(English as a foreign language)listening comprehension of learners at different proficiency levels.
文摘Listening has been considered as the most important language skill by many researchers but in Chinese context it has been overlooked for years.The Foreign Language(FL)listening problems gradually reveal when students attend to the Listening Course in universities or colleges.This paper at first illustrates the importance of listening in foreign language learning and provides a discussion on the top-down and bottom-up processes with the analysis of Anderson's three-model of language comprehension[9]as well as the factors affecting listening comprehension in Foreign Language in general,aiming at the illustration of the necessity on one of the bottom-up processes-the Spoken Word Recognition(SWR).The analysis of two issued official guiding documents for Chinese university students and the current situation of English listening teaching in Chinese universities are followed,providing a general background on English listening teaching in Chinese context.Three possible foreign language listening problems and their causes are proposed,followed by the pedagogical suggestions to EFL learners who are improving their listening skills and instructors who are advancing their teaching procedures.
文摘Listening plays a significant role in everyday communication, as a language teacher in Chinese higher vocational college,I would like to do some research about some listening strategies on how to improve EFL learners listening ability.
文摘Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Based on schema theory, ways like developing vocabulary, reading relevant materials in learners' first language, introducing different types of text are useful to develop background knowledge, thus will facilitate reading and listening comprehension.
文摘In recent decades, there is an increasing awareness among EFL teachers that listening is no longer being regarded as a receptive skill to assist other language skills. Instead, listening itself is viewed as an important communicative skill that is urgently required in the real- world communication. This project aims to identify the main features of authentic listening that are required in EFL teaching which are Purpose and Expectation, Environmental Background Clues and Informal Speech.
文摘The author of this paper discusses how to improve listening skills by applying strategy-based approach to teaching EFL listening comprehension to the Chinese students of English in the light of : 1. Introducing the situation of teaching listening comprehension in China; 2. Analyzing the existing problems in this aspect; 3. Reviewing the theoretical literature on listening strategies and their role in teaching EFL listening comprehension; 4. Proposing how to apply the strategy-based approach in teaching listening comprehension. 5. Providing a strategy-based listening lesson plan .
文摘Due to the covert nature of the listening process, English listening comprehension has become a demanding challenge for most EFL learners in China. Strategy-based listening instruction, with its more accurate insight into the listening process, could be one of the timely answers to the challenges facing Chinese EFL listeners. Starting with a comprehensive review of theories and studies on strategy-based listening instruction in recent Western academia, the current paper critically examined the possible advantages and the theoretical and practical limitations of strategy-based listening instruction.
文摘Metacognition is defined as the knowledge and ability to monitor and control cognitive conditions in the learning process.Listening is the most important skill of the four language skills in both learning and teaching,and plays an important role in our daily life.Although nowadays there is a deeper perception of listening,it needs more attention and research.Accordingly,the present study investigates the relationship between the Metacognitive awareness and listening performance of female Dentistry students in English for General Purposes(EGP)course in Urmia University of Medical Sciences(UMSU).To do so,50 Iranian female dentistry students were participated in this study.They completed Metacognitive Awareness Listing Questionnaire(MALQ)and listening section of the final exam.First,the listening section of final exam was applied to the participants at classrooms by the teacher.Immediately after the administration of the examination,the MALQ were conducted.The analysis exposed a weak positive relationship between learners’Metacognitive awareness scores and listening performance.Although correlation was not high,still there is more correlation in problem solving,directed attention and planning evaluation than others.
